Verdict due on Madrid train bombs

Security forces are on alert before a Spanish court delivers its verdict on the March 2004 Madrid train bombings, the country's largest terror trial.

A three-judge panel will read out its verdict and sentences at 1100 (1000 GMT) on Wednesday.
Twenty-eight men faced trial over the devastating nail-bomb blasts that hit four commuter trains, killing 191 people and injuring more than 1,500.
All the accused pleaded innocent during the four-month trial.

'Doubts remain'
The defendants - 19 mostly Moroccan Arabs and nine Spaniards - face charges including murder, forgery and conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack over the 11 March 2004 blasts.
The top eight defendants each face nearly 39,000 years in jail if found guilty on all charges, but under Spanish law the maximum sentence for terrorism is 40 years.

Spanish investigators say the accused were part of a local Islamist militant group inspired by al-Qaeda, but had no direct links to the terror organisation.
Fourteen of the accused went on hunger strike during the trial, in protest against what they called unjust accusations against them.
Seven suspected ringleaders died in a suicide blast in a Madrid apartment three weeks after the attacks.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero says he hopes the ruling will "give a definitive answer to those who have put forth absurd and despicable doubts about 11 March".
Many Spaniards still have serious doubts about who was behind the attacks, says the BBC's Danny Wood in Madrid.
Some theories - supported by a number of victims - suggest they were part of a coup d'etat involving Spain's secret services.
But many others believe the verdict will clear up such doubts, and regard it as a key step towards recovery, our correspondent says.
Memorial services are planned for a week after the verdict.

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